--On Friday, March 19, 2010 09:55 +1300 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... > Third that. In fact, this exactly the purpose of > "applicability statement" standards track documents, as > defined in RFC 2026 for many years. > > I have lingering sympathy for the ISD idea that John Klensin > referred to, but without changing any of our rules or > procedures, an applicability statement Proposed Standard could > be drafted immediately. +1 I suspect that, even if we had ISDs, a clearly-written Applicability Statement would be the right way to deal with this particular issue. If we had ISDs, the applicability statement might be built into one, but we'd presumably need to do the A/S work regardless. john _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf